Causes Privacy Policy

Causes is now owned and operated by Brigade Group.

This Privacy Policy was last revised on May 27, 2016.

Brigade is a social place to weigh in on issues that matter. It's a platform
for you to connect with others, find common ground and take action. As such, the
content you post is visible to others. If you want to keep your opinions
private, Brigade might not be the place for you. There's a lot of required
legal language here, but we've done our best to summarize our Privacy Policy in
plain English where possible. Each section begins with "SUMMARY," which briefly
sums up the section that follows. While these summaries are not part of the
legal Privacy Policy, we hope they will help you navigate this document more
easily. If you have questions about Brigade, please explore our
Help Center.

Brigade Group, Inc. ("Brigade," "we" or "us") is committed to protecting your
privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how information about you or associated
with you ("personal information") is collected, used and disclosed by Brigade
Group, Inc. and its affiliates, which own and operate Brigade, Causes, and Accord.
This Privacy Policy applies to our websites, including
www.brigade.com, www.causes.com,
and www.getaccord.com, and our mobile
apps for iPhone, Windows or Android mobile devices (collectively, "our
Service"). By accessing or using our Service, you signify that you have read,
understood and agree to our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your
personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.

1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND USE

SUMMARY: Information we collect and use. We collect personal information from
you in order to provide you with a personalized and useful experience on
Brigade.

Generally. We collect personal information from our users in order to
provide you with a personalized, useful and efficient experience. The categories
of information we collect can include:

SUMMARY: Information you provide. This is the basic information that we need
to set up your account on Brigade.

Information you provide. We may collect and store personal information you
enter in our Service or provide to us in some other manner, including your
name, birthdate, email address, password, and location. We may also collect
any communications between you and Brigade, as well as any information you
provide if you take part in any interactive features of the Service.
Information that is part of your profile or that you post to a campaign will
be viewable to the public.

SUMMARY: Data collected through the use of Brigade. Additional information
that you provide and your engagement with the platform help us personalize and
improve our Service and your experience.

Data collected through the use of the Service. After you set up your
account, you may choose to provide additional information which may be shared
through public profiles, such as your photograph, biographical content,
organizations you support, and other information (collectively, "Profile
Information"). You control how much personally identifying information you
wish to provide in your public profile. We also collect information about how
you use the Service and about your actions on the Service, including users or
campaigns you support, positions you take, actions, interests, and interaction
with others on the Service, and user content you post to the Service in the
form of positions, reasons, messages, comments, likes, shares, and other
content ("User Content"). Please remember that Brigade may, but has no
obligation to, monitor User Content posted by our members. All users and User
Content is subject to our Community Guidelines.

Information we receive from social networking sites. When you interact
with our site through various social media, such as when you login through
Facebook, or share Brigade content on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram
or other sites, we may receive information from the social network including
your profile information, profile picture, gender, user name, user ID
associated with your social media account, age range, language, country,
friends list, and any other information you permit the social network to share
with third parties. We may use your friends data to let you know what your
friends are doing on our Service, and to let your friends know what you are
doing on the Service. The data we receive is dependent upon your privacy
settings with the social network, and we will not post information about you
on third party social media sites without your consent. You should always
review, and if necessary, adjust your privacy settings on third-party websites
and services before linking or connecting them to our website or Service.

SUMMARY: Address book. We want you to be able to find your friends and share
your activity on Brigade with them and vice versa. Brigade works best when you
can connect with the people you know.

Address book Information. With your permission, Brigade may access your
contact list available on your mobile device or in your email accounts in
order to locate your friends and contacts on the Service and to invite your
friends and contacts to connect with our Service. When we invite your friends
to join the Service, we will include your name and photo to let them know that
you are the person extending the invitation. After sending these invitations,
we may also send reminder emails to your invitees on your behalf. We will
store these contacts for purposes of alerting you when your contacts join
Brigade at a later time so that you may connect with them on the Service, and
to suggest friends and connections to other members of Brigade.

SUMMARY: Information we receive from third parties. We have many exciting
plans for how to make Brigade better and more relevant to you. In the future we
may use third-party data to further personalize your experience, such as to tell
you who your elected officials are.

Information we receive from third parties. From time to time, we may
receive information about you from third parties, such as voter registration,
directory information, identity verification, and other information from
charitable or political organizations, or from campaign creators. We may also
collect information about you that is publicly available.

SUMMARY: From time to time, we may send you and your contacts friendly email
updates and push notifications to share what you're up to and what's trending on
Brigade.

We use this information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features
and functionality of the Service, as well as to communicate directly with you,
such as to send you email messages and push notifications, and permit you to
communicate with others on the Service or on social media or invite others to
join the Service. We may combine information internally across different Service
offerings (e.g., Brigade, Causes and Accord) to enhance your experience with our
Service. For example, we may identify a friend you may know from one service to
suggest that you engage with that friend on another service, and we may let your
friends on one service know about your activities on another service. For
example, we may send an email to your friends on Causes to let them know that
you've joined Brigade, and we may include your profile picture in the email so
that your friends recognize you. We may also use information about your
activities on the Service to provide personalized content, including targeted
campaigns and advertising. We may also send you Service-related emails or
messages (e.g., account verification, donation confirmations, change or updates
to features of the Service, technical and security notices). For more
information about your communication preferences, see "Your Choices Regarding
Your Information" below.

Use of cookies and other technology to collect information.

SUMMARY: Cookies. We employ commonly-used Internet technologies like cookies
to help remember you and to personalize and improve your experience on
Brigade.

We automatically collect certain types of usage information when you visit our
website or use our Service. When you visit the Service, we may send one or more
cookies — a small text file containing a string of alphanumeric characters — to
your computer that uniquely identifies your browser and lets us help you log in
faster and enhance your navigation through the site. A cookie may also convey
information to us about how you use the Service (e.g., the pages you view, the
links you click, how frequently you access the Service, and other actions you
take on the Service), and allow us to track your usage of the Service over time.
We may collect log file information from your browser or mobile device each time
you access the Service. Log file information may include anonymous information
such as your web request, Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type,
information about your mobile device, referring / exit pages and URLs, number of
clicks and how you interact with links on the Service, domain names, landing
pages, pages viewed, and other such information. We may employ clear gifs (also
known as web beacons) which are used to anonymously track the online usage
patterns of our Users. In addition, we may also use clear gifs in HTML-based
emails sent to our users to track which emails are opened and which links are
clicked by recipients. The information allows for more accurate reporting and
improvement of the Service. We may also collect analytics data, or use
third-party analytics tools, to help us measure traffic and usage trends for the
Service and to understand more about the demographics of our users. These tools
collect information sent by your browser or mobile device, including the pages
you visit, your use of third party applications, and other information that
assists us in analyzing and improving the Service. Although we do our best to
honor the privacy preferences of our visitors, we are not able to respond to Do
Not Track signals from your browser at this time.

We use or may use the data collected through cookies, log file, device
identifiers, location data and clear gifs information to: (a) remember
information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the
next time you visit the site; (b) provide custom, personalized content and
information, including targeted content and advertising; (c) provide and monitor
the effectiveness of our Service; (d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total
number of visitors, traffic, usage, and demographic patterns on our website and
our Service; (e) diagnose or fix technology problems; and (f) otherwise to plan
for and enhance our service.

2. SHARING INFORMATION

SUMMARY: Sharing information. We're building a social platform for civic
engagement but that network only works when others can see your activity, you
can see their activity, and people can find each other. Sharing is a two-way
street meant to benefit all users. With this in mind, please remember that your
profile information, including your name and photo, and your actions on the
Service, will be available publicly to other users on the Service and some of
this information may be searchable by search engines.

We may share your personal information in the instances described below. For
further information on your choices regarding your information, see the "Your
Choices Regarding Your Information" section below.

Remember, our Service allows you to connect and interact with others. Your
profile information, including your name, photo, and other personal information,
will be available publicly to other members of the Service by default when you
interact with others on the Service, such as by creating or taking a position,
leaving a reason, supporting or commenting on a user or Campaign, or taking
actions. This information may be available to the public and may be searchable
by search engines which may display certain parts of your personal information
publicly. We may also share your personal information with:

The public and other members of the Service. When you interact with others on
the Service, your profile information and other information including the
positions you take, the reasons you provide, and the campaigns you create and
interact with, will be viewable by others on the Service, and may be
searchable by search engines, so please do not provide personal information
you would not want to be public. You may be able to control the visibility of
some of your information and actions in your Settings (see "Your Choices
Regarding Your Information" below);

Campaigns and sponsors with whom you interact on our Service. We may share
your personal information with a campaign when you support, comment on, take
an action or position or otherwise interact with a campaign on the Service,
so that the campaign or sponsor may communicate with you. Personal
information shared with campaigns and sponsors will be subject to the privacy
policies of those campaigns and sponsors, so please review those policies
before agreeing to share your data. Please review our Community
Guidelines and remember that
Brigade does not have an obligation to monitor or
verify User Content or campaign content that is posted to the Service.
Sharing information with others on our platform is done at your own risk;

Target of campaign. When you take an action that targets a particular
individual, group or cause, we may share your personal information and
contact information with the target of the campaign and with the creator of
the campaign. Additionally, by signing the campaign, you consent to have your
name/signature, city, and state, disclosed on the Brigade page for the
campaign indicating that you have supported the campaign. This information
will be viewable to all members of our website, as well as search engines;

Campaigns who want to reach individuals like you. From time to time, a
campaign will ask Brigade to show the campaign to Brigade users who meet
certain demographic criteria, such as living in a particular geographic
location or belonging to a political party, or behavioral criteria, such as a
history of interacting with similar campaigns on Brigade. We do not share
your personal information with the campaign unless or until you interact with
the campaign on Brigade.

Third parties at your request. For example, you may
have the option to share your activities on Brigade with your friends through
email, text or on various social media sites;

SUMMARY: The Brigade family currently includes Causes and Accord and shares
data among these Services.

Other brands owned or controlled by Brigade Group, including but not limited
to Accord and Causes, and other companies owned by or under common ownership
as Brigade, which also includes our subsidiaries (i.e., any organization we
own or control) or our ultimate holding company (i.e., any organization that
owns or controls us) and any subsidiaries it owns. These companies will use
your personal information in the same way as we can under this Policy;

Third party vendors, consultants and other service providers that perform
services on our behalf, in order to carry out their work for us, which may
include identifying and serving targeted advertisements, content or service
fulfillment, or providing analytics services;

Other parties in connection with any company transaction, such as a merger,
sale of all or a portion of company assets or shares, reorganization,
financing, change of control or acquisition of all or a portion of our
business by another company or third party or in the event of bankruptcy or
related or similar proceedings; and

Third parties as required to (i) satisfy any applicable law, regulation,
subpoena/court order, legal process or other government request, (ii) enforce
our Terms of Service Agreement, including the investigation of potential
violations thereof, (iii) investigate and defend ourselves against any third
party claims or allegations, (iv) protect against harm to the rights,
property or safety of Brigade, its users or the public as required or
permitted by law and (v) detect, prevent or otherwise address criminal
(including fraud or stalking), security or technical issues.

We may also share information with others in an aggregated and anonymous form
that does not reasonably identify you directly as an individual.

3. YOUR CHOICES REGARDING YOUR INFORMATION

SUMMARY: Your choice regarding your information. There are many options in
your profile settings. Please explore the Settings and make sure
to save your preferences.

Profile and Data Sharing Settings. You may change some of your data sharing
preferences on your Settings page. For example, you may mark your profile as
private so that it may not be viewable by search engines, though your
information will still be viewable by others on the Service.

SUMMARY: Marketing communications. For the most part, you can control the
types of emails and push notifications that you get from us. There are, however,
some rare exceptions to this rule, such as updates to this Privacy Policy.

Marketing Communications. If you do not wish to receive promotional emails,
you can change your email preferences on your Settings page on our websites, or
you can click the "unsubscribe" button on promotional email communications.
Note that you are not permitted to unsubscribe or opt-out of non-promotional
messages regarding your account, such as account verification, donation
confirmations, change or updates to features of the Service, or technical and
security notices.

SUMMARY: Online advertising. Like many other websites and online services, we
may work with ad networks and other third parties to serve you online
advertisements based on your interests. This helps us provide our service for
free to our users. Read on to learn more about this practice.

Online Advertising. We may permit third party online advertising networks
to collect information about your use of our website over time so that they may
play or display ads that may be relevant to your interests on our Service as
well as on other websites or apps. Typically, the information we share is
provided through cookies or similar tracking technologies. The only way to
completely "opt out" of the collection of any information through cookies or
other tracking technology is to actively manage the settings on your browser or
mobile device. Please refer to your browser's or mobile device's technical
information for instructions on how to delete and disable cookies, and other
tracking/recording tools. (To learn more about cookies, clear gifs/web beacons
and related technologies, you may wish to visit
http://www.allaboutcookies.org and/or the
Network Advertising Initiative's online resources, at
http://www.networkadvertising.org). If you
access our service on your mobile device, you may not be able to control
tracking technologies through settings.

SUMMARY: Data retention. You can deactivate your account at any time by
choosing the Deactivate option in your Settings.

Data Retention: We will retain your information for as long as your account
is active or as needed to provide you services. You may deactivate your account
in your profile settings. Please contact us at
[email protected] if you wish to delete your
Brigade account permanently from our systems. Please contact us at
[email protected] if you wish to delete your
Causes account. Please be aware that we will not be able
to delete any content you have shared with others or with social media sites.

Deleting or Anonymizing Your Content: If you are under 18 years of age, you
may request that the User Content that you posted to the Service be deleted or
anonymized such that your personal information will not be identifiable publicly
on our Service by emailing [email protected]
for Brigade and [email protected] for Causes.
While we will
use all commercially reasonable efforts to delete or anonymize your User Content
upon request, please be aware that due to the social nature of our Service, you
may not be able to completely remove all of your personally identifiable User
Content if, for example, that content has been stored, republished, or reposted
by another user or a third party. We may also maintain your information in
identifiable form for our internal use, even if your personal data is no longer
visible to the public on our Service.

4. SECURITY AND STORAGE OF INFORMATION

SUMMARY: Security: We take security seriously at Brigade. Please do your fair
share by protecting your account with a strong password. If you notice any
suspicious activity in your account, please make sure to email us immediately.

Brigade cares about the security of your information and uses commercially
reasonable physical, administrative, and technological safeguards to preserve
the integrity and security of all information we collect and that we share with
our service providers. However, no security system is impenetrable and we
cannot guarantee the security of our systems 100%. In the event that any
information under our control is compromised as a result of a breach of
security, we will take reasonable steps to investigate the situation and where
appropriate, notify those individuals whose information may have been
compromised and take other steps, in accordance with any applicable laws and
regulations.

Your information collected through the Service may be stored and processed in
the United States or any other country in which Brigade or its subsidiaries,
affiliates or service providers maintain facilities. If you are located in the
European Union or other regions with laws governing data collection and use that
may differ from U.S. law, please note that we may transfer information,
including personal information, to a country and jurisdiction that does not have
the same data protection laws as your jurisdiction, and you consent to the
transfer of information to the U.S. or any other country in which Company or its
parent, subsidiaries, affiliates or service providers maintain facilities and
the use and disclosure of information about you as described in this Privacy
Policy.

5. PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF 13

The Service and its content are not directed at children under the age of 13. In
the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child
under age 13 without parental consent, we will delete that information as
quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information collected
from a child under 13, please contact us at
[email protected] for Brigade and
[email protected] for Causes.

6. LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

SUMMARY: Links to third party websites. You may come across links and other
references to sites that are not part of our service. Please remember that we
don't have any control over these third parties, and they are not governed by
this Privacy Policy.

The Services may contain links to and from third party websites of our business
partners, advertisers, social media sites, and campaign sponsors and our users
may post links to third party websites. If you follow a link to any of these
websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and
that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for their policies. Please
check the individual policies before you submit any information to those
websites.

7. UPDATES TO THIS POLICY

We reserve the right to modify this Policy from time to time. If we make any
changes to this Policy, we will change the "Last Revision" date below and will
post the updated Policy on this page. If you object to any changes, you may
close your account. Continuing to use our Services after we publish changes to
this Privacy Policy means that you are consenting to the changes.